瘾

像是在一个温泉浴里，

温度很温暖，

感觉很舒服。

泡着，泡着，就不想起来了！

等到想站起来时，

才发现，已经起不来了。

醒觉时，看见原来那是罪恶的温泉。

给你如沐春风的温暖，

给你万千宠爱在一身的错觉。

然而，

却是致命的瘾之泉。

在像与不像之间的对与错里，

需要真理来做放大镜。

人的眼睛太有色，

人的心太不公正，

所量出来的斤两也不会准确。

在无意之中已占据你心、入侵你生命。

引你步向死亡、损失；

生命破产、远离真理。

使你再也不能没有她，

她的名字叫做 瘾。

Twitter, faster than earthquakes

Twitter has been taking hits on just about all fronts for its first real commercial, which shows one of its software engineers, Danny Hertz,sitting in a New York lunchroom when he gets a tweet about last week’s earthquake—just before the room starts shaking and he gets pelted (harmlessly) by debris falling from all directions. He appears blissfully unconcerned as he continues reading the Shit My Dad Saysbook and prominently holding a Twitter mug. The consensus is that the spot is boring, self-absorbed, insensitive and rewrites history to portray the quake as worse than it was. I think MSNBC nails it: "The tardiness of this topic seems counterproductive to the message of Twitter’s immediacy it’s attempting to send." By taking the in-joke/doofus-humor approach, Twitter sells itself short and undermines its relevance to the daily lives of millions of tweeters worldwide. Sure, Twitter can be a geeky time waster, but it’s also sparked a seismic shift in the way people communicate and played a role on the global stage. It really can shake things up, and could use some advertising to match.